Ambulance Quotes

• I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

  Frank Carson

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

  Illeana Douglas

  Guy, Dying, Action

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• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  Lane Kirkland

  Leadership, Bitterness, Staff

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• We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

  George Galloway

  Fall, Men, Pulse

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Jobs, Fall

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• The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

  Chris Matthews

  Differences, Looks, Literature

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• Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Choices, Adults, Abnormal

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• I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Hills, Skiing

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• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Car, Wish

  1981 Social Studies,'Lesson One'.

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• You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

  Johnny Damon

  People, World, Want

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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Suicide, Business, Real

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• People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

  Ina Garten

  Fun, Taken, Home

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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Eye, Sea, Dollars

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• The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

  Boman Irani

  Society, Might, Firsts

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• If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

  John Peel

  Jobs, Leaving, Done

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• I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  People, Proud, Emergencies

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

  Giannina Braschi

  Freedom, Fire, Clouds

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Heart, Doctors

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Fall, Fighting

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• I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Should Have, Editors

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• He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

  Simon Munnery

  Fool, Disagree

  "Stand up and be counted" by Sam Taylor, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.

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• [S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Goodbye, Hurt, Love You

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

  China Chow

  Airplane, Praying, Consistent

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• The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Sound, Nursery

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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